Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
More William Cowper Quotes
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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